Desserts

Chocolate Bars

  • 8 oz 100% baker's chocolate
  • 4 oz 56% baker's chocolate
  • 4 tbsp salted (Irish) butter
  • 2 tbsp (guess) real vanilla extract
  • 1 cup half and half (full whipping cream ok)
  • 2 tbsp ground coffee (fine grained, I use a mid Italian roast)
  • 4 tbsp chia seeds
  • Ceylon cinnamon (to taste, maybe 2 tsp)
  • Red pepper (to taste, maybe 1 tsp)
  • Salted peanuts (to taste, 1 cup)
Not mixed in but added after:
  • Optional: sugar brushed on after, baker's or crystallized work - for the people in your family not used to 85% + dark chocolate

Instructions:
  • quick: Melt everything in crockpot, butter a large rectangular glass dish, sprinkle sugar on bottom, spread. Sprinkle sugar on top. Refrigerate until solid.

Base
  • Melt butter and chocolate in crockpot on low heat.
  • When soft, add vanilla and mix it it
  • Add half and half and chia seeds, mix until it is all together
  • Add remaining dry ingredients (spices, peanuts) and mix

Preparation
  • Melt additional butter and brush glass dish
  • Add a very small amount of baker's sugar to bottom of pan (in my case, half of the pan for my family)
  • Scoop out melted contents into glass pan
  • Sprinkle more sugar on top
  • Put in refrigerator until solid.